You are lucky, indeed! Perhaps you should write a manual on "How to Be a Good Partner to a Resident." You'd make a ton of money as this would be a requisite purchase for any spouse/partner to a graduating med student! Honestly, though, I felt sad reading your list as I realized that I did not experience this from my partner at all, and just felt like I was expected to do my work and then come home and do MORE work, instead of veg out which is all I wanted to do.

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